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Trudy wrote a new post, The Eternal Clamor of the Unquiet Mind by E.H. Jacobs 1 month, 2 weeks ago
My evolution from wanting to write, to loving writing, to having to write did not proceed quietly. The more I lost myself in the craft, the more I anguished over what it meant to be “good enough” and, once goo […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, When the Student Is Ready, the Lizard Appears by Susan Lubeck Moriarty 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I was on the patio in my lounge chair journaling. The year was 2017 and I had been living in Los Angeles for the past twenty-three years, having moved from Chicago. I loved my husband Dave, family and friends but […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Review of Anne Whitehouse's Outside From the Inside by Nancy Ludmerer 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Anne Whitehouse’s moving new poetry collection, Outside from the Inside (Dos Madres Press, 2020), takes us on four journeys, each with its pains and losses, its accretions of insight and moments of joy. In the f […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, A Capital Morning on Virginia’s Eastern Shore by Alex Joyner 4 months ago
You tiptoe back towards religion, in my experience, cautiously and nervously and more than a little suspicious, quietly hoping that it wasn’t all smoke and nonsense, that there is some deep wriggle of genius and p […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, The Enormous Gift by Laura Marello 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Simone Weil
Love is not merely an emotion. It is a meltdown that reestablishes a more unified space of brilliance, goodness, and sadness. This is the real function of love […] -
Trudy wrote a new post, Altered State by Trudy Hale 7 months, 1 week ago
It all started when a friend in California sent me three used paperbacks that someone donated to her sidewalk library. My friend and I hoped that my nephew who is stranded here during the pandemic without school […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, A Plague Tale by Trudy Hale 10 months ago
I run a writers’ retreat in a nineteenth-century farmhouse on the James River in Norwood, Virgina. My quarters are at the rear of the three-story house and consist of a large country kitchen with a woodstove, a […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Maps: Surviving Social Distancing by David Roach 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Right now, sitting in my armchair, I’m imagining myself at the Camilla House bed and breakfast in Penzance, listening to Fiona, the charming proprietor, as she tells me about her favorite local restaurants and p […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Insouciance by Laura Marello 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I just wrote a new book of poems called Celestial Navigation. One of my favorite stanzas says:
Penguins man the caps,
huddle
against the wind, sheltering
downy chicks
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Trudy wrote a new post, Walking the Via Dolorosa of the Confederacy by Alex Joyner 1 year, 1 month ago
Once I spent an afternoon at Appomattox walking the Via Dolorosa of the Confederacy. The Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road is mostly just a trace now but this is the scene of the last march. Here’s where Bobby Lee r […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Deep Ellum B.C. by Alex Joyner 1 year, 3 months ago
Wednesday night in Deep Ellum, the eclectic little arts neighborhood lingering in the shadow of I-45 east of Dallas’s downtown. Ever since the 19-teens when Blind Lemon Jefferson came to the barbershops and d […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, A Runaway Life by Mariflo Stephens 1 year, 5 months ago
I live a runaway life. I’m a writer, a wife, and a mother and, like a lot of women who tire of the multi-layered duties that come with that combination, I need to get away. Right now, what I’m running away fro […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Journaling with Jenny by Jenny Patton 1 year, 5 months ago
When I was seven, I made my own journal out of legal pad paper—a little book that sparked a lifelong passion for writing down my thoughts, feelings and desires. E.M. Forster asks, “How do I know what I think u […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, A Craft Talk by Katherine Smith 1 year, 6 months ago
ALLOWING THE LEAF
For an ultrasound exam, I ran on a treadmill and then was hooked up to a machine that showed my heart pumping blood. It was an incredible thing to see my heart keeping perfect time, beating […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Time To Write by Laura Marello 1 year, 8 months ago
So delicious—this light, this air, this time, my time, because I have constructed a solitary life in order to free up time to write. Ice chatters in cool, stevia-sugared lime juice; I look out through the window a […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Hooligans and Lunatics by Alex Joyner 1 year, 9 months ago
“We’re walking to the midnight service?” my daughter asked. “With all the hooligans out there.”
It was Christmas Eve. I looked out the window onto the streets of our Eastern Shore town. A mostly full moon moved […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Digital Cleanse by Kelly McGannon 2 years ago
Sometimes, modern life feels dried out and far away from what nourishes. In our chase to connect, we climb ladders that promise better tomorrows and disconnect from what feels good under our feet. We forget the […]
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Trudy commented on the post, Getting Carded. And a Love Letter by Erika Raskin 2 years, 1 month ago
What a loving tribute to Ann and a “memento mori”
for us all.
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Trudy wrote a new post, Myths Are Good Medicine by Kelly McGannon 2 years, 2 months ago
It’s hard being human, especially when the world feels hard. Nowadays, we live in a fishbowl of constant exposure to the unnatural noise of unnatural tweets and digital pings, chimes, and chirps. I miss bird song […]
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Trudy wrote a new post, Appetite For Destruction — Fixing Roofs in Waverly by Alex Joyner 2 years, 3 months ago
“Simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”
—Nan She […]
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